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What Works for Wellbeing

This presentation by Nancy Hey, Director of the What Works Centre for Wellbeing provides:
• An introduction to the mission of the Centre
• What wellbeing is, how it’s defined and measured and why it matters
• Explains the link between wellbeing, a fairer society and making the economic case for prevention
• Describes key factors that influence wellbeing building on the UK’s world-leading science
• Shows how wellbeing can be a powerful tool for public health and as a public health outcome in its own right

What Works for Wellbeing

2.
 Explain what wellbeing is, how its defined and
measured and why it matters
Explain the link between wellbeing, a fairer society
and making the economic case for prevention
 Describe key factors that influence wellbeing
building on the UK’s world-leading science
 Show how wellbeing can be a powerful tool for
public health and as a public health outcome in its
own right
Session aim
Objectives – by the end of the session be able to

4.
Nancy Hey
Centre Director
What, Why, How and Who
Independent Unbiased Rigorous Concise Relevant Accessible
What Works
for Children’s
Social Care
Wales Centre for
Public Policy
• Independent of government
• Systematic reviews of the
evidence base
• Translate assessments into
practical guidance
• Identify and fill evidence gaps
through trials
• Incentivise and build the
capacity of decision makers to
generate and use evidence

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Nancy Hey
Centre Director
What, Why, How and Who
What Works Centre for Wellbeing

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What, Why, How and Who
Growing knowledge
2018...2021
Wellbeing Across the Life Course
Culture & Sport
Community Wellbeing – People, Power & Place
Work, Transitions & Adult Learning

8.
Wellbeing Economics
for a fairer society
Part 2 What is wellbeing
What do we know about wellbeing in the UK

9.
Towards inclusive growth
Health or Growth? Or Both?
“The ultimate purpose of economics, of
course, is to understand and promote the
enhancement of wellbeing.”
Ben Bernanke, former Chairman US
Federal Reserve
“For growth to be sustainable and
strong it needs to be inclusive and
comprehensive.
There is a role for public policy,
over time, to seek to close these
fault-lines to achieve inclusive and
sustainable rises in societal
wellbeing.”
Andrew Haldane, Chief Economist,
Bank of England August 2016

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Wellbeing = social welfare
Wellbeing has an image problem, people think its fluffy – its not.
The “Wellbeing Industry” confuses the
issue
Health is a state
of complete
physical, mental
and social
wellbeing and
not merely the
absence of
disease or
infirmity.

15.
Determinants of mental health
Creating the conditions for us all to thrive
Physical and Mental health is affected by a broad
range of factors.
We use wellbeing as a measure of social progress to
address all these together.
Wellbeing focus creates the
conditions in society for individuals to
thrive.
• Personal characteristics
• Personal: Living well
• People: Social health and community context
• Place: Local conditions
• National & Global conditions

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Economic appraisal and evaluation of wellbeing impacts
How of wellbeing
2.3 Economic appraisal is based on the principles of
welfare economics – that is, how the government can
improve social welfare or wellbeing, referred to in the
Green Book as social value.
4.15 Individual and society’s wellbeing is influenced by a number
of interrelated factors including health, relationships, security
and purpose
4.16 Where appropriate evaluations of previous or similar
interventions, international and wellbeing evidence, should be
used to design options that build on what works, to avoid
repeating past mistakes.
6.21 Subjective wellbeing evidence aims to capture the direct
impact of a policy on wellbeing. The evidence can challenge
decision makers to think carefully about the full range of an
intervention’s impacts…
https://whatworkswellbeing.org/appraisal/
1. What’s your objective
2. What are your options
3. Narrowing options
4. Evaluating impact

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What makes the difference?
Internationally we know that three quarters of the difference in wellbeing
between the top 10 and bottom 10 countries and regions can be explained
by:
1.Social support – have someone to rely on
2.Freedom to choose what you do in life
3.Kindness – give to charity/volunteer
4.Trust - Absence of corruption
5.GDP
6. Healthy life expectancy

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Greater negative link with wellbeing
Physical
activity
Partner
relationship
Music
Employed
TrustS’one to
rely on
Unemployed
Longer
Commute
Low-qual
work
Noise
pollution
Air pollution
Years of
Educat’n
But it depends on the characteristics of the job.
Those with greater stability, clarity and social
relations tend to be best for wellbeing
High qual
work
Mixed
evidence or
no effect
Having a
child
Personal Wider environment and play Work
Green
Space
Poor health Loneliness
Selected factors and link with Life Satisfactionn
Note that this is not a meta-analysis, but rather a selection of independent variables from selected studies.
Greater +ve and -ve effect demonstrate where selected studies have shown a greater than +/- 5% link with overall wellbeing.
Smaller +ve and -ve effect shows a 1-5% link with overall wellbeing
Smaller negative link with wellbeing
Smaller positive link with wellbeing
Greater positive link with wellbeing
Greater negative link with wellbeing
Smaller negative link with wellbeing
Smaller positive link with wellbeing
Greater positive link with wellbeing
Basic needs
What we know
How big a challenge or resource?

29.
Local Area Adult Wellbeing Indicators
The known drivers of wellbeing using existing data
-> Download

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Applied to workplace
Workplace drivers of wellbeing
What makes the biggest
difference where you are?
Workplace index being tested

36.
Community Resilience:
enables a positive response to a
crisis
& increases positive emotion
From having a caring and effective
community through:
People – our relationships
Power – ability to influence
Place – built & natural environment
•strength of social fabric
•levels of trust
•institutional quality
•generosity
•shared purpose
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